Letter: Lighten up

Nice to see my old pal Dave White in the editorial section again writing a letter to the editor. Nice as well to be running to the dictionary to figure out what he's saying. You have to love his vocabulary. I'd like to accuse him of traducing the truth, just for old-time sake, but in fact his brief tractate was apropos.

The gist of it, extrapolated in eloquent prose, was that those darn voters have gone and done it again. Being guilty of decalcomania, I wondered if we might transfigure his expose into a bite-sized nugget suitable for our bumpers. How about, "All You Stupid Voters Suck."

White, known for his general dissatisfaction of everything, and in keeping with his libertarian roots, couldn't say what problem isn't being solved by the governing class, thus relieving himself of any need to suggest a solution.

The libertarian solution seems to be to pretend that humanity is so generously imbued with character and righteousness that left to their own devices everything would be just fine; frequently stated forthrightly as "the market will self-adjust." Forgive my stock in trade oversimplification, but isn't the bulwark of libertarianism the appeal of a nonexistent simple world.

Since the "talentless" and "dysfunctional" have "accomplished so little," "spectacularly failed to solve," shouldn't they rise to the top of libertarian lore, forever hailed as the supreme non-doers of what didn't need to be done anyway?